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Show MADE THE PATIENT WALK. Physician's Successful Method of Dealing Deal-ing with Nervous Woman. A trained nurse, who worked under Dr. S. Weir .Mitchell for a number of years, tolls the following story: "A patient of whom I once hnd charge Inboreif'itnder the delusion that sho could nntjvnlk. She was suffering from 'some" nervous troublo, nnd Dr. Mitchell toldiilo I must take her to wAlk In (fid often ulr. After numerous unsuccessful nttenipts to get her out of doors, 1 told Dr. .Mitchell that It was useless; tho only way to get hor out would bo to pick her up bodily nnd put her In tho street, ami that I could not do. "After a moment's thought Dr. Mitchell said: "'You meet mo to-morrow nt tho corner of ond strcots nt 11 o'clock nnd I'll mnko her wnlk.' "Tho following ilny nt tho appointed lioqr I wus nt tho street corner named, nnd thero vns tho doctor with my chnrgo In tils cnrrlago. As I ap-prohchod ap-prohchod ho turned to her nnd said: " 'Thero Is your nursoj get out and walk homo with her,' "My chargo began to protest that sho couldn't, but Dr. Mitchell, Insisting that sho must, helped hor to tho stdo-walk, stdo-walk, then drovo away, nnd with much wcoplng nnd protesting my charge walked homo." |